Poly said:I'm guessing a girl (or a boy ) named Sue.
Can't good rep you. Bummer.
Poly said:I'm guessing a girl (or a boy ) named Sue.
intro2faith said:Being a homosexual is a sin if you profess to be a Christian. Beanieboys only sin is not accepting Christ. That is the only one that is to be worried about.
intro2faith said:I've already told you that homosexuality is a sin. If beanieboy does not believe that, how is us telling him over and over again going to change anything? It won't. Except to turn him off of Christianity even more.
Tell me, why are unbelievers who are NOT homosexuals, but ARE liars not ganged up on like beanieboy is? Lying is a sin, is it not? Then why do we focus so much on this ONE sin of homosexuality?
And yet, when was the last time you heard anyone give a testimony that said something like....."Thank God my brother/ sister was so harsh with me. It really made me see the light!" ? :think:Rimi said:And when Jesus was harsh and called people names, He did it with a chuckle and a smile?
Money changers and sellers were serving the ruling elites, facilitating payment of taxes and system of purity through sacrifice. Jesus was asserting His authority in the Temple. He was not there to preach to the masses, but to expose the Pharisee's and cleanse the Temple. His Father's House. His anger was of righteous indignation, not sinful selfish anger.The money changers' tables that He overturned . . . He was just having them on, right?!
You CAN check the sources. Did you?
Ah. So you agree that you haven't "polled" every homosexual you've ever met?
Because you've already made up your mind what you think I'm going to say?
I read the first page or two, then skipped to the end to make my first post. I'm sure I didn't miss a great deal.
So you've based your opinion on me on conversations you've had with homosexuals? I'm guessing American homosexuals, as well? Does that seem even the tiniest bit ridiculous to you?
I really doubt you'll have met anyone who fits into the same "profile" as I do. I'm more than sure that I'm entirely unlike almost everyone you've ever met. I'd advise you to actually interact with me before making a judgement on my character. In fact, that's my advice regarding everyone.
What about me makes you think that I'm a compulsive liar desperate for attention?
Come on, you're describing faults that you think I have. I can hardly fix them without more details, can I?
Rubbish.
We've already established that you're being quite selective in which homosexuals you're talking to. I know a great many who have never been abused. I know some who have. I also know some straight people who've been abused. It says a lot more about the nature of abusers than survivors of abuse.
Nah. If there's one thing I know, it's paranoia.
My question was which sources YOU were basing your statements on. Is the CDC one of them? Can I get a specific link?
Like I just said . . . yer not gonna check nuthin.[/quote
I'm quite a fan of checking sources. It's one of the reasons I'm having trouble keeping my usual posting level now that my net access is limited. I even check the sites that Ninevah posts, and that woman is queen of the links.
You'd think so, wouldn't you?
Look, this isn't rocket surgery.
I went through my period of denial. I discarded it with the rest of my early teenage angst.
I. Don't. Care.
You sure do put in the effort before calling it quits, don't you?
I'm more than happy to discuss Scripture. I am a religious studies student, after all.
Nope. Just wise not to share the priceless with a piglet. Oink. You can study a book called the Bible all you want, but it's senseless to you as evidenced by your posts.
You can read them, but you seem incapable of linking to them. Or posting them. Or even sourcing them more specifically than "FBI and other statistics".
OH, so unless you read the actual report you won't believe. Your lovah must have bacterial vaginosis.
Statistics are a method of displaying information which can very easily be used to mislead the public.
Yes, and we've been mislead by the APA, with them caving to pigs and saying it's OK to be homo. You do know about the American Psychiatric Association, don't you?
I've been reading the posts on this site for quite a while now. I know what they say.
And since you don't like it, you deny, deny, deny. You're pathetic.
You know nothing about me. This is the only conversation we've ever had, save for my well wishes in a post you made about your mother in law. I haven't been posting regularly in the time that you've been here. Yet you claim to know how I'll respond to something?
I know you're pathetic. I know you're a liar (presenting yourself as a fomo, but then saying you have a boyfriend so you're really a backslidden fomo). I know that you'll continue to respond because you're desparate for attention.
You're way off. It's really kind of amusing.
You're a hoot . . . in a sick, demented, can't-take-my-eyes-off-the-accident sort of way. Available for kids parties?
I've pointed out repeatedly that I'm asking YOU what YOU are basing YOUR opinion on. That isn't something I can google. Since you're obviously not going to answer the question or provide anything more intelligent than misdirection and insults, I'm giving up. I'm sure you'll continue to rant. Have at it.
I have answered but you being a dimwit can't seem to get it. I base my opinion on homos I've conversed with (and the one I was friend to) as well as studies. You should give up. Hope you do, in every way.
No, I led you to believe that I was not heterosexual, which I'm not. You jumped to a conclusion and hurled insults at me based on it.
You inferred being a fomo. Then you brought up a boyfriend. So you are a bi-sexual, which is really nothing but a confused, backslidden fomo.
Quite.
Well, at least you know you're a confused sick freak.
Nope. I'm sure you think you're telling the truth.
You agreed with me that you haven't polled every homosexual you've ever met. For all I know, you've polled two, and they were wearing T-Shirts that said "I'm a homosexual victim of abuse: ASK ME HOW!"
See? That's the thing about statistics. They bend easily to fit whatever you want them to say.
I see. So for you, statistic only have any merit if they fit in with your agenda. Cool.
I'm in the middle of degree. If I didn't care to research statistics, I would have shot myself by now.
Please tell me it's not music appreciation or basketweaving. Although, those would suit you.
Rocket surgery, hey?
You prolly didn't get that one, hey?
I'm sure some of "us" aren't. People have a tendancy to be shallow.
Fomos sure do have that tendency. Fear of intimacy and honesty and all that.
True, some take the attitude of "live and let live". Some just have patience.
Oh, Christians who actually know the word of God and love Him do have patience. We know that there will come a day . . . and you won't have enough sunblock. arty:
eccl3_6 said:Its not really the sort of thing you need advertising for is it? If you want one surely you kinda know already and its not really sending out the right message.
Nineveh said:One in 12 isn't rampant? What is? 1 in 1?
The Bible teaches that love(that kind of love) is to be between a man and a woman. Acting on homosexuality IS a sin.
So is lying, stealing, gossiping etc. But it's interesting to find that people tend to make a much bigger deal out of homosexuality than they do out of lying, stealing etc.
Once again I will state :homosexuality IS a sin.
And once again, I will state: We are to hate homosexuality. NOT the person who commits it. So, calling a homosexual person "stupid, disgusting, sickening" etc is WRONG. But calling the act of homosexuality disgusting and sickening is not.
My point is, while it is spread faster within the gay men, it is also spreading within the heterosexual community. Do you condemn heterosexuality? And since it is extremely low in lebians (lower than heterosexuals), do you approve of lesbianism?
It seems that you are equating blame with AIDS.
It's a disease. It happens from having sex with an infected partner, gay or straight.
Unless you have only had sex with one person in your lifetime, you should thank God that you simply were lucky you didn't contract it, and reach out in empathy instead of condemnation.
That could have been you.
Has anyone even said the word "stupid" but you so far on this thread?
intro2faith said:Good argument. All sin is in equal seriousness with God isn't it? All sin is sin. It's all vile in Gods eyes.
intro2faith said:Did I say He said that? No. He condemned the SIN and loved the SINNER.
beanieboy said:Let's see.
If you are Irish, you walk in a parade boasting of your Irish heritage.
When I say, "St. Patrick's Day," most people think of "Green beer."
The one I went to in St. Paul had drunk people before noon.
As Homer Simpson said, "Come on, Moe. It's St. Patrick's day, and 9am, and I'm not drunk yet."
Jewish people, during Hannukah, but Stars of David in their windows, or mennorahs. This happens right during Christmas time, which could be taken as flaunting their disbelief in Jesus as the Savior, but it is done in solidarity.
Pride began in the 70s after Stonewall.
People began to do yearly protest marches when they were fired from businesses simply for being gay, when they could be denied housing because they weren't protected under civil rights. Over time, it became a huge parade, but it wasn't observed in minneapolis until 1988 or so. Until then, people took to the streets demanding equal rights, and blocked traffic.
It's not about bragging about having same sex sex (anyone more than a married person brags about having sex). It is simply about acknowledging one's existence, being proud that many unjustices have been overcome. Most people (even heterosexuals) think of people as gay or straight, not simply choosing. Straight people announce their engagements, their weddings, tie cans to their car so anyone not invited to their wedding or that even knows them knows they got married... Heterosexuals celebrate their pride all the time, and this is one weekend where gays do.
I remember when there was a Black History Month. The first response was, "why is there no white history month?" There is. It's held from March 1 - January 31.
Nineveh said:And I'm looking forward to answers from a lot of skipped questions by you too, so I guess we are even
Oh and here I was feeling badly for a sec, that post was to Poly
Why do you think Jews will go to hell? What about David? Abraham? Daniel? Ruth?Balder said:Rimi, if the slightest sin, the slightest act of disobedience or deviation from God's perfect law, makes us all sinners, all equally deserving of an eternal punishment, then you could say that ultimately it is all equal in your God's eyes. Imperfection means deserving of eternal punishment, from your kind old Jewish granny next door to Pol Pot.
Maybe so, but there will be many so-called Christians who will find themselves in hell, not because they denied Him with their lips, but with their hearts. It is one thing to have an intellectual belief in Jesus, and quite another to actually live out this belief.Balder said:I don't think so, but don't many Christians think modern Jews are bound for that fate if they deny Jesus was the Messiah and the Son of God?
Okay, let's think this through now. The Bible says to love everyone...does it not? Therefore, does EVERYONE not include the sinners? THEREFORE, are we not to love the sinners?